How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Aatrox · 53.87% win rate over 401 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 I have one turret and no stun and he has one of the weakest melee starts in the game — neither of us can commit, so it's a wash at the contact window. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | My second turret and its slow-beam are coming online but his sweetspot-Q combo isn't fully threatening yet — even trades, last-hit off the buildings. |
| Level 3 | Aatrox | His full Q-edge combo plus heal-on-hit lands before my third turret banks, so he wins the first real extended trade if I mistime the grenade. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Three turret charges plus the CH-3X center-stun make his Q-knockup all-in suicidal — I zone him off CS, but his sustain stops it being a free kill, so it comes down to landing the grenade. |
| Level 6 | Aatrox | His R combat stats heal him through the nest and W (Infernal Chains) tethers an immobile, dashless yordle off my turrets — his hardest all-in window. |
| First item | Aatrox | His drain mythic plus R lets him out-sustain three buildings in a long trade and reset the all-in faster than I can re-bank charges. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | My super-turret siege and Rylai-slow reclaim the wave and tower, but a fed Aatrox out-stats the nest 1v1 — it comes down to who cashes their lead first. |
Level 1 is the dangerous one — I have a single turret and no stun, so I concede the contact window and just bank Q charges instead of feeding him a free sweetspot Q. By 2-3 my second turret and its electron beam turn the wall in front of me into a tax zone: every time Aatrox steps up to land the Q edge he eats stacked turret fire plus the beam slow, and his heal-on-hit passive can't outpace two turrets at once. Don't fan rockets into his auto range chasing him — last-hit off the turrets and never let his W (Infernal Chains) catch you forward of my own nest.
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